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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Every country has had neo-Nazis in the last 20 years. Only one of Russia and Ukraine has acted, as a political entity, similar to the actual Third Reich. You are engaging in literally textbook whataboutism.

    “Russia, run by a charismatic fascist leader who murders and imprisons his enemies and suppresses minorities, is acting like Nazi Germany by invading another country on thin, false pretenses, and engaging in genocide and other atrocities.”

    “Oh yeah? Well, some Nazis live in Ukraine.”


  • Okay. How about, you, an Arabic-looking person, get pulled aside at the airport, EVERY time you travel. Your whole family does, and your children, by people carrying guns. While a stream of white people walks through unmolested.

    Every time, for your whole life, you and everyone else that merely resembles you in some way are singled out for your appearance - regardless of who you are, what you’ve done, the danger you actually pose to society. Just because somewhere, sometime, it might catch a bad person.

    And let’s not pretend that random strip searches don’t exist. If you travel a lot, the likelihood of one happening to you increases.

    Most of us these days wouldn’t think that kind of racist fascism was okay. Because world history has shown the danger of profiling by race for human rights. But, whatever, I’m not you I guess.



  • You’re getting downvoted, but I think there’s truth in your comment. It’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle. This set of new technologies we’re calling “AI” is here to stay, and the Internet and its denizens are indeed going to have to adapt.

    I’m not sure what “adapting” looks like yet, however. We haven’t even seen all of the possible consequences yet. I think it’s reasonable to be concerned or even frightened for the near future, where basically every industry is going to be affected.